We study two simple modifications of self-avoiding polygons (SAPs). Osculating polygons (OP) are a super-set in which we allow the perimeter of the polygon to touch at a vertex. Neighbour-avoiding polygons (NAP) are only allowed to have nearest-neighbour vertices provided these are joined by the associated edge and thus form a sub-set of SAPs. We use the finite lattice method to count the numbe...

In the method of variation of parameters we express the Cartesian coordinates or the Euler angles as functions of the time and six constants. If, under disturbance, we endow the “constants” with time dependence, the perturbed orbital or angular velocity will consist of a partial time derivative and a convective term that includes time derivatives of the “constants”. The Lagrange constraint, oft...

We present a new method for automatically detecting circular objects in images: we detect an osculating circle to an elliptic arc using a Hough transform, iteratively deforming it into an ellipse, removing outlier pixels, and searching for a separate edge. The voting space is restricted to one and two dimensions for efficiency, and special weighting schemes are introduced to enhance the accurac...

In this paper, we propose new variants of the two-step Adams-Bashforth and the one-step Adams-Moulton methods for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations (ODEs). The methods are constructed geometrically from an exponentially fitted osculating parabola. The accuracy and stability of the proposed variants is discussed and their applicability to some initial value problems is...

We present another simple way of deriving several iterative methods for solving nonlinear equations numerically. The presented approach of deriving these methods is based on exponentially fitted osculating straight line. These methods are the modifications of Newton’s method. Also, we obtain well-known methods as special cases, for example, Halley’s method, super-Halley method, Ostrowski’s squa...

We continue the study undertaken in Efroimsky (2005a) where we explored the influence of spin-axis variations of an oblate planet on satellite orbits. Near-equatorial satellites had long been believed to keep up with the oblate primary’s equator in the cause of its spin-axis variations. As demonstrated by Efroimsky & Goldreich (2004), this opinion had stemmed from an inexact interpretation of a...